Author: ARCH BISHOP

DIALOGUE, RECONCILIATION AND PEACE (DREP) CENTRE

April 16, 2018

DREP CENTRE HOSTS MIANGO/IRIGWE AND FULANI ELDERS AND YOUTHS, SUES FOR PEACE

Plateau State has experienced relative peace in the past few years. The political, religious, social and economic atmosphere of the state has been peaceful. In...

NEWS / SPEECHES/PAPERS

April 16, 2018

RECOWA PEACE COMMITTEE INAUGURATION

The RECOWA Peace Committee was inaugurated in Abuja, Nigeria, at the Catholic Resource Centre on the 12th April, 2018 by the President of RECOWA Most...

March 29, 2018

HOMILY AT THE CHRISM MASS OF 27.03.2018

Homily at the Chrism Mass of 27.3.2018 at Our Lady of Fatima Cathedral Jos, by Most Rev. Ignatius A. Kaigama, Archbishop of Jos. This week...

PASTORAL MESSAGES

March 15, 2018

MUSINGS OF A PASTOR OF SOULS OVER THE RECENT KILLINGS IN PLATEAU STATE

MUSINGS OF A PASTOR OF SOULS OVER THE RECENT KILLINGS IN DAFFO, MIANGO, DUNDU, DONG, LA’AKE AND RAFIKI OF PLATEAU STATE The cries and anguish of...

March 13, 2018

SIX YEARS MEMORIAL MASS IN HONOUR OF BOMB BLAST VICTIMS OF ST. FINBARR’S CHURCH RAYFIELD, JOS

11th March every year since 2012 is celebrated in memory of the fourteen people who died in the terrorist bomb attack on Finbarr’s Catholic Church...

PROFILE

Born in the Nigerian State of Taraba on the 31st July, 1958, Archbishop Ignatius Ayau Kaigama was ordained a Catholic priest in 1981. In 1995, he became the first Bishop of the Diocese of Jalingo, the capital city of his home State of Taraba. In 2000, he was installed as the Archbishop of Jos, capital of Plateau State and on 11th March 2019, the Holy Father Pope Francis appointed him Coadjutor Archbishop of the Catholic Archdiocese of Abuja and he took full possession as Archbishop of Abuja in December 2019. Archbishop Kaigama is the founder of the Dialogue, Reconciliation, and Peace Centre, Jos (2011). He was elected President of the Regional Episcopal Conference of West Africa (RECOWA) in 2015 and also served as the President of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Nigeria (CBCN) for six years.

He has held positions as Chair of the Plateau State Inter-Religious Council for Peace and Harmony and Chair of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), in Plateau State for years. He was also a member of the Solomon Lar Presidential Committee mandated by the Federal Government to look into the causes of the Plateau ethno-religious crises and to proffer ways of bringing them to an end. He travels all around the world to speak about peace and share his experience of dialogue/interfaith collaboration and peace-building efforts.

His Grace holds a PhD in spiritual theology from the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, Italy and two honourary doctorate degrees in Public Administration and Human Resource Management by Godfrey Okoye University, Enugu (2015) and Madonna University (2016) respectively.

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